CTO Advisor

CTO Advisor

At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading AI-infused scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market.

What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers' success and to our Winning Culture.

Our customers rank among the who's who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2,400+ global companies who rely on our best-in-class platform.

Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, we behave like leaders regardless of title, we are committed to achieving ambitious goals, and we love celebrating our wins – big and small.

Our Connected Planning solutions drive some of the world's largest companies, provide real-time insights, and enable smarter, data-driven decisions that optimize performance and improve decision-making across the enterprise. To support our ambition for growth and expansion, Anaplan is looking for an experienced CTO Advisor. The CTO Advisor will act as trusted advisor and executive advisor to our strategic accounts.

As a CTO Advisor you build strategic, technical relationships with our strategic accounts focusing on the offices of the CIO and CTO. You help grow the Anaplan footprint by building their enterprise architectures around Anaplan. This is a unique opportunity for a thought leader with deep enterprise technology expertise, proven industry experience and relationships, and exceptional collaboration skills to shape the future of Anaplan.

Your impact as a trusted leader and subject matter expert will be:

• Strategic Advisory: Generate new business by supporting our strategic accounts and large deals on technology and enterprise architectures
• Trusted Advisor: Build trusted relationships with key partners, customers and prospects through solution development and collaboration.
• Thought Leadership: Represent Anaplan at industry events, in thought leadership opportunities, and through social media.

Key skills include:

• Analyze a company's key use cases around cloud driven data, data management and integration technology
• Advise CIOs on enterprise architectures and best practices around SaaS applications, data lakes, data management, PaaS, AI/ML/data science platforms
• Translate top CIO priorities into commercial opportunities
• Build trusted advisor relationships with IT Executives
• Executive level communications in-person, on stage and in writing
• Manage cross-functional teams and key stakeholders in a matrixed organization to achieve maximum results for the business and customers

Your qualifications include:

• 15+ years of experience in enterprise data software technology
• 5+ years at senior level (VP/Sr. Director)
• Worked in the following roles:
• Senior IT leadership roles at a large enterprise in CPG, Retail, FSI, Manufacturing, Energy, Transportation
• Senior field advisory roles at large tech companies like Microsoft, AWS, SAP, Oracle, ServiceNow, Databricks, Snowflake
• Senior consultant or practice lead at a big consultancy firm
• Led high-impact digital transformation projects at enterprise scale
• Held accountability to achieve key business goals i.e. revenue growth, TCO & ROI

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion:

Build your job in a place that thrives on diversity, inclusion, and belonging. We believe in maintaining a hiring and working experience in which all people are respected and valued, regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes people unique. We hire you for who you are, and we want you to bring your true self to work every day!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive equitable benefits and all privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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It has come to our attention that fraudulent and fictitious job opportunities are being circulated on the Internet. Prospective candidates are being contacted by certain individuals, mainly through telephone calls, emails and correspondence, claiming they are representatives of Anaplan. The main purpose of these correspondences and announcements is to obtain privileged information from individuals.

Anaplan does not:

• Extend offers to candidates without an extensive interview process with a member of our recruitment team and a hiring manager via video or in person.
• Send job offers via email. All offers are first extended verbally by a member of our internal recruitment team whenever possible and then followed up via written communication.

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